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    #1

    Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can copy

    the database to a cd so others can view it? How do you make that happen? thanks!
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    RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

    Donna

    Alpha 5 has a runtime that allows users to look at and maintain a database (if the developer defines it). The Alpha files must reside on a read/write device, so a read only cd is not an option.

    What are you trying to accomplish?

    Another option might be to have the database on a web server and have the information available over the web.
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      RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

      Well, as usual, my boss has waited for the last minute before some big meeting to let me know he wants to be able to bring the image database I created with him. He can bring his laptop, but there are 3940 entries where I used an image reference rather than embedding the photos into the database. We do have licenses and run time and I can download Alpha Five to the laptop, but since the reference points to the files on our server, I'm not sure how I can transfer those files over to the laptop. He wants to be able to access the image database and pull up photos with the descriptions on his laptop at the meeting. Thanks for any help you can give me!

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        RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

        If I remember correctly,the image reference locations are hard coded in Alpha.Let's assume they are all in a network folder like f:\images.You would have have an f:\images folder on the laptop with all the images.I'm not sure if you could map your c-drive as an f-drive, but you could have an autoexec.bat file on the root of his c-drive with the following:
        SUBST F: C:\
        If the path isn't hard-coded as I believe, then establishing an F-drive is not necessary.

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          RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

          Luckily when I copied the folder over, the reference path automatically changed to c: thank God! What a relief! :)

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            RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

            Not necessarily relevant to Marie's problem (which is already solved anyway), but whenever I use images in A5, on a form, report or whatever, I keep them all in a sub-folder of the database folder, such as:
            C:\data "--where the database resides
            C:\data\images "--all graphics go here, additional sub-folers are fine

            Then after I put the image on the form and Alpha shows the full path as "C:\data\images\whatever.jpg", I delete everything before the i. So the above would now read "images\whatever.jpg". Now the database can be relocated to a totally different path and the graphics will still work, as long as the subfolders are moved too.

            I do the same for Document fields... keep a documents subfolder and reference the path with :a5.current_path()+chr(92)+field (syntax may not be correct, but you get the idea)

            Bob

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              RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

              Don't forget the aliases feature. I have an image application on two machines. It is on C on one machine and D on the other. I set up aliases for the folders holding the images on both machines and the transfer is seemless. The image file references convert.

              Bill
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                RE: Does Alpha Five have a viewer so that you can

                I know you have solved it but assuming that you were running Win 2000 or XP on the Laptop you could have resoloved the problem by installing the database on the laptop, connecting to the server via a share and then making the the directory where the images are held 'avaiable offline'

                This would have resulted in the OS copying the image files to the laptop when it was disconnected from the network and the laptop 'thinking' that the share was still there when it restarted.

                .dbf files and .mdb files are by default exempt from being made avaailable offline but there are way round this via the registry.

                Ta

                John

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